For Sale Listings in Austin Area and Nearby States
Advertises multiple properties including a 130 acre farm near Austin with no buildings one mile from market 160 acres with good buildings and immediate possession 160 acres in Emmons and Mercer counties North Dakota plus a few good lots with easy payments and houses well located with rent potential Also seeks a cream separator and local sand supplies from a Rochford area source suitable for building needs and fence posts.
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Third Ward
R. R. Depot
Austin
John A Johnson Scholarship Planned At Minnesota
At the State University in St Paul on November 13 the John Albert Johnson scholarship will be established at the University of Minnesota. An incalculable fund is being built by prominent Minneapolis St Paul and Duluth benefactors who prefer secrecy. Over 18000 has already been raised with expectations to reach 30000 or more. The endowment will fund high grade securities and provide income to help students working through the university. The gift honors the late governor who self funded his education. The founders foresee strong appeal to him if alive.
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St. Paul
John Albert Johnson
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
St Paul
Duluth
Experts Loot Two Safes in Spokane Grocery Heist
Robbers drilled through two safes at Greenough grocery and Spokane Table Supply, taking about 2700 dollars in cash, two small diamond rings, and an imitation pearl. They opened champagne bottles and celebrated. police call it the most scientific safe-cracking they have examined. A drill, attached via a light socket, breached the steel without explosives.
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Spokane
Wash
Greenough
Spokane Table Supply Company
Kellogg in Washington to discuss Harriman line cases
Frank B Kel logg arrived in Washington and will stay several days. He conferred with interstate commerce commission members about the Harriman line cases where he serves as special counsel. He also consulted Attorney General Wickersham regarding the suit in St Louis to dissolve the Standard Oil company as an alleged trust restraining trade.
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Washington
Frank B. Kellogg
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harriman Line
Wickersham
St Louis
Standard Oi Company
Directum the trotter dies from bloom poison at Savage farm
St Paul November 13 Directum a 2 05 percent trotter has died at M W Savage stock farm from bloom poison Directur captured the four year old championship at Nashville on October 18 1893 He was bought by M W Savage for 20000 from William E Spicer in 1898
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St. Paul
Directum
Great Trotter
M. W. Savage
Directur
Nashville
William E. Spicer
Rank hos its pores as well as pleas ures Leaconsfield
The fragment presents a garbled quotation attributed to Leaconsfield with unclear context about pleasures and pores. No clear event, person, or organization can be determined from the unreadable OCR snippet.
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Leaconsfield
Liquor Issue Roils American Federation Debate
In Toronto the American Federation of Labor debates liquor’s impact on workers and unions. Rev. Charles Stelzel, a Church of Christ leader, argues for restraint while liquor trade factions led by Jere Sullivan and Edward Hirsch stage counterattacks alleging influence from anti saloon groups.
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Toronto
Ont
American Federation of Labor
Charles 8
Stelzel
Federated Council of the Church of Christ In America
United Brewery Workers
Anti-Saloon League
Bielzel
Militia Quell Cairo Mob After Pelley Murder
Cairo Illinois on November 13 reports say Arthur Alexander the last of the men jailed over the murder of Miss Annie Pelley was moved north by militia. Some 350 Illinois National Guard members guarded streets and jail as bayonets replaced prior mob weapons. Coroner’s verdicts named deaths as from unknown assailants.
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Cairo
Arthur Alexander
Annie Pelley
Fourth Regiment
Illinois National Guard
Alexander
Pelley
James
Here
Illinois Central Railroad
Taft Attends Wesleyan Installation in Hartford
President Taft arrived by special train from Middletown to Wesleyan University in Hartford for the installation of William A. Shanklin as president. The ceremony drew a 12 000 strong crowd in the armory where doctors of laws were conferred and Taft wore cap and gown with a Yale purple hood.
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Hartford
Conn
Taft
Middletown
William A. Shanklin
Wesleyan University
Taftin
State Guard
Hartford Club
Butt
Secret Service
Sherman
Washington
Wesleyan
Root
Yale
Earthquakes Ruin Port de Paix and Gonaives Demolished
Island rocked by tremors and a cyclone with floods sweeping Haiti. Port de Paix is in ruins with nineteen deaths reported. Gonaives razed and Cape Haitien flooded. A sea wave towered across the land, killing and wrecking as communication to the interior disappeared.
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Port Au Prince
Haiti
Port de Paix
Gonaives
Cape Haitien
Jamaica Struck by Storms Floods Damaging Railways
Kingston reports indicate massive storm and flood damage across the island since last Friday night. Rail lines and coastline suffer serious destruction, landslides cut off communication, bridges washed away, and Kingston area losses reach 500000 dollars. Water intake and culverts destroyed, rainfall totals reach forty eight inches November 6 to 10, with telegraph lines down and steamer Bradford wrecked at Port Antonio.
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Kingston
Jamaica
United Fruit Company
Bradford
Port Antonio
MacVeagh Not Alarmed By Treasury Outlook
Secretary MacVeagh states no immediate need for 3 per cent certificates and sees no reason to rush action on Panama bonds. He expects Congress to create parity between 2 and 3 percent Panama issues via tax changes on national bank circulation, and notes no alarm over the treasury situation.
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Washington
MacVeagh
Treasury
Panama
Congress
Carlisle Very Ill in New York Hospital
John G Carlisle former secretary of the treasury under President Cleveland is a convalescent at St Vincent s hospital in New York he was taken there as a private patient Dr J D Bryan his physician declines to discuss details but says Carlisle has been very sick and looks for early recovery
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New York
John G. Carlisle
Woman Seriously Injured In Sherman Township Wagon Accident
Mrs Hans Nelson of Sherman township near Morgan Minnesota was crushed by a wagon loaded with livestock. Both bones of her right leg near the ankle were broken along with a collar bone fracture and other injuries. At over seventy she is in serious condition.
Bank Robbery Hits Norden South Dakota Casing Major Loot
Yeggmen blew up and wrecked the Norden bank building in Norden South Dakota on November 13 taking 2345 dollars in cash. The structure was totally demolished with more than 2000 dollars in additional losses. The bandits were seen heading southwest as posses failed to locate them.
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Watertown
S. D
Norden
Duluth Man Found Guilty in First Degree Murder
Mike Rossi was found guilty of first degree murder in the July killing of Anton De Meo in Duluth. The verdict came after a trial that concluded with Rossi’s conviction and potential life sentence.
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Duluth
Mike Rossi
Anton de Meo
Minnesota water supplies show high pollution rates
A Wisconsin bulletin reports Minnesota studied seventy nine farm water sources finding fifty nine polluted and twenty good. The survey links pollution rise to dense settlement and notes typhoid cases on farms. several wells cannot be kept safe, while rivers and cisterns remain polluted.
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Washington
Department of Vericulture
Minnesota
State Board of Health
By Water Between the Twin Cities
Washington reports Mississippi river improvements include passenger service between Minneapolis and St Paul. Dredging and bank work cost 59,098 with 59,542 still for locks and dams. Lock No 2 finished in 1907, Lock No 1 nearly finished. overall 75 percent done. No navigation benefits until Lock No 1 completes. service could boost passenger travel and cut flour and grain freight from Minneapolis.
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Washington
Minneapolis
St. Paul
United States Army
Twin Cities
Congress
Monorail Car Demonstrated at Chatham Grounds
London reports the first full scale public demonstration of Louis Brennan's gyroscope based monorail. An 8 car train, 40 feet long and 22 tons, runs on a single curved rail at 25 mph with 80 horsepower. Gyroscopes provide stability and the petrol engine powers the dynamo.
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London
Royal Society
Louis Brennan
War Office
Chatham
Jury rules accidental death in Zindars case at De Pere
Green Bay Wis Nov 13 The coroner s jury investigates the death of Otto W Zindars deputy marshal of De Pere finding accidental death caused by a gun in the hands of Francis Martel. The jury exonerates the woman on murder charges but recommends she be held for a statutory offense and for careless handling of firearms.
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Green Bay, Wis
Otto W. Zindars
de Pere
Francis Martel
Centennial flour mill fire in Spokane causes large loss
Spokane authorities report a total loss of 208500 from a fire at the Centennial flour mill located at Howard street and Mallon avenue. The mill building was insured, but 105000 bushels of wheat stored inside were only about half insured. Rebuilding plans are already underway.
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Spokane
Wash
Centennial
Howard Street
Mallon Avenue
Sugar trust scandal arrests shake New York politics
James F. Bendernagel, tied to the sugar trust’s inner circle, is arrested on a conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government over sugar weighing. Additional indictments target several American Sugar Refining Co. employees, with claims the trust bribed officials and influenced Washington.
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New York
James F. Bendernagel
Sugar Trust
United States
Federal Grand Jury
Oliver Spitzer
Thomas Kehoe
Gene M. Voelker
Edward A. Boyle
John R. Coyle
Patrick J. Hennessey
American Sugar Refining Company
Arbuckles
Bendernagel
Cuba
Spitzer
James F. Halligan, Jr
Thomas D Kehoe
Edward A. Boyie
Patrick Hea Dessey
Record of Taft’s Journey
A 56 day official record shows President Taft visited 33 states and delivered 265 speeches. He traveled about 13 000 miles by auto and over 150 miles by carriage and walked at least 75 miles. Attaches say Taft holds the presidential record for speech making on a single trip.
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Washingon
Wendell W. Mischler
Taft
White House
Harrison
McKinley
Cleveland
Mr. Taft
Campaign to remove clear margarine tax
Chicago November 13 The executive committee of the national livestock exchange met to launch a campaign for the removal of the tax on cleomargarine.
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Chicago
The
National Livestock Exchange
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